Minutus

From Millspaugh:

HISTORY AND HABITAT. [Remedy] is an indigenous ditch - weed, common in all
localities in the United States, where it flowers it flowers from June to
September.
It has always held a place in domestic practice as an astringent in
diarrhoea and dysentery. Drs. Briggs (Ec. Med. Jour., 1875, 479) and Scudder
brought it to the notice of practitioners as a remedy, both topic and
internal, for irritation of the mucous membranes and various forms of
subacute inflammation of the same, as in pharyngitis, vaginitis,
tonsillitis, etc.
PART USED AND PREPARATION. The whole fresh plant is to be chopped and
pounded to a pulp and weighed. Then two parts by weight of alcohol are
taken, the pulp mixed thoroughly with one - sixth part of it, and the rest
of the alcohol added. After stirring the whole well, pour it into a well -
stoppered bottle, and allow it to stand eight days in a dark, cool place,
shaking often.
The tincture, separated from this mass by filtration, has a brilliant
reddish - organs color by transmitted light; no special odor; an astringent
taste; and an acid reaction.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS. An analysis by the Lloyed brothers failed to
yield a peculiar principle, or even a volatile oil. A peculiar tannin was,
however, determined, which first turns blue then precipitates black fro its
alcoholic solution with ferrous, and deep green with ferric sulphate.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION. [Remedy], according to Dr. Marrow's experiments,
causes many symptoms simulating a coryza; rawness of throat and tongue;
increased appetite followed by nausea; burning in the rectum; loose stools
followed by constipation; increased urine; cough and constriction of the
chest.

Regards
Wendy Howard

From Sivaraman:

Ears
- Ringing and singing in both ears.
Nose
- Discharge from nares thick, pus-like, streaked with blood and an odour as
if from an open sore.
- A peculiar wet feeling in nares, as though a violent coryza would set in,
which did not; the secretion from the nose became thickened and pus-like, but
not increased.
- Nose : stuffed as if swollen; fullness of nose and ears.
- Contractile feeling of muscles of side of nose affected with catarrh (a
secondary symptom).
- Itching in nare.
Throat
- Posterior nares feel raw as if denuded of epithelium.

Jim Gregorich
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